Properties worth Rs10 cr unearthed in raids on excise officer's house

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In an early morning swoop, the sleuths of the Madhya Pradesh lokayukta’s Special Police establishment raided two residential premises of an Assistant Commissioner (Excise) Naval Singh Jamod and stumbled upon incriminating documents and assets worth about Rs10 crore, disproportionate to his known sources of income.

Among the assets unearthed by the lokayukta Police included a cash of Rs32 lakh, gold and silver ornaments and documents of other movable and immovable assets.

According to report, separate teams of the lokayukta Police headed by SP Arun Mishra and DSP Daulat Singh carried out simultaneous raids at the residences of Jamod in Scheme No. 71 in Indore and Dhar.

Jamod was taken aback seeing the lokayukta Police team knocking the door of his Gumasta Nagar residence in Indore on Friday at 5.15 am. Initially he tried to dilly-delayed and tried to put of some sort of resistance but later gave in and allowed the lokayukta Police team to carry out searches.

During the searches, the lokayukta Police stumbled upon incriminating documents of various movable and immovable property and other valuables worth crores of rupees. While searching bedroom of Jamod, the team also stumbled upon a suitcase stashed with currencies of Rs500 and Rs1,000 denominations worth Rs32 lakh.

Among other documents seized from the residence of Jamod showed that the latter had landed property in Dhar, Kukshi, Alirajpur, and Khargone. As per documents, Jamod owns 30 acres of land in Khargone and a flat in Dhar besides other landed property in Dhar, Alirajpur and Kukshi.

The value of his Indore residence equipped with all the facilities of modern lifestyle has been estimated in crores of rupees.

In addition to this, the lokayukta police have also found costly items, luxury car, motorcycle, gold/silver ornaments and a gold deity from the residence of Jamod, who is currently posted in Indore. According to SP llokayukta, Arun Mishra, the raids were conducted following a complaint against Jamod for amassing wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income.

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